--- title: Zhu De url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/zhu-de/ description: 4 verified quotes from Zhu De, Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army and People's Liberation Army; Vice-Chairman of the Central People's Government… section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: an interwar radio-and-newsreel intelligence collage with a 1930s map of Europe and propaganda poster proofs.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-interwar.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · China # Zhu De ![Zhu De in 1951](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/peoples-republic-of-china-mao/zhu-de.jpg) [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mao_Tse-Tung_poseert_met_zijn_ministers_en_gedelegeerden_van_het_Nationaal_Comit%C3%A9_van_China_tijdens_de_herfstconferentie_in_Peking,_Bestanddeelnr_333001_074.tif): Camera Press (Fotocollectie Spaarnestad), CC0 1.0 (Nationaal Archief) Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army and People's Liberation Army; Vice-Chairman of the Central People's Government; Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1959-1976) · China On the regime page: [People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/peoples-republic-of-china-mao/#zhu-de) 4 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=zhu-de). 1. **Content note:** Call to overthrow the government by force. The words are shown as they were said or written. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) — > “Turn your guns in the opposite direction and fight to overthrow imperialism and the Kuomintang, which exploit, oppress, and butcher the Chinese labouring masses; fight to establish the Soviet Government and the Red Army of the workers, peasants, and soldiers!” — English: Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, vol. 6 (English-language edition as transcribed on Marxists.org). Original-language text not found. — September 25, 1931 · Statement · Jiangxi Soviet area — An appeal issued a week after the Japanese seizure of Mukden, addressed to Kuomintang soldiers and signed by the Red Army's commander-in-chief and other commanders. It calls on them to stop fighting the Red Army and to turn on Japan and the Kuomintang government. — Letter from the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to the soldiers of the White Army on the forced occupation of Manchuria by Japanese imperialism, 25 September 1931 (signed by Chu Teh, Mao Tse-tung, Ho Lung, P'eng Te-huai and Huang Kung-lueh), in Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, vol. 6 [Source](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_13.htm) 2. > “American imperialism is now starting a new aggression against the People's Republic of China. The flames of aggressive war kindled by American imperialism around China are spreading.” — English: People's China, vol. 2, no. 10 (English edition, Peking, 16 November 1950). Original-language text not found. — November 16, 1950 · Article — Article for the 33rd anniversary of the October Revolution, published a few weeks after Chinese forces entered the Korean War. It states the PRC leadership's official account of the war's origins. — "The October Revolution and the Chinese People", People's China, vol. 2, no. 10 (16 November 1950) [Source](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/zhu-de/1950/11/16.htm) 3. > “The Chinese people have a deep love of peace, but in order to defend peace, they have never been, and will never be, afraid of resisting an aggressive war.” — English: People's China, vol. 2, no. 10 (English edition, Peking, 16 November 1950). Original-language text not found. — November 16, 1950 · Article — Same article, following the sentence on American aggression; carried over from the regime page's "In their words" quotes. — "The October Revolution and the Chinese People", People's China, vol. 2, no. 10 (16 November 1950) [Source](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/zhu-de/1950/11/16.htm) 4. > “The Central People's Government will certainly help the Tibetan people in wiping out the influence of imperialism in Tibet; it will achieve the unification of the territory and sovereignty of the People's Republic of China, and defend the national frontiers of our great Motherland, so that the Tibetan nationality and people will achieve liberation, return forever to the family of our great Motherland and, helped by the Central People's Government and the Han nationality, develop its own political, economic, cultural and educational work and improve and raise its standards of living step by step.” — English: People's China, vol. 3, no. 12 (English edition, 16 June 1951). Original-language text not found. — May 23, 1951 · Statement · Peking — Statement by the Vice-Chairman of the Central People's Government on the Seventeen Point Agreement signed in Peking that day by representatives of the central government and of the Tibetan authorities. — "On the Liberation of Tibet" (statement on the agreement on the peaceful liberation of Tibet, 23 May 1951), People's China, vol. 3, no. 12 (16 June 1951) [Source](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/zhu-de/1951/05/23.htm)